I've just released Spira, a first draft of an RDF ORM, where the 'R' can mean RDF or Resource at your pleasure. It's an easy way to create Ruby objects out of RDF data. The name is from Latin, for 'breath of life'--it's time to give those resource URIs some character. It looks like this (feel free to copy-paste): require 'spira' require 'rdf/ntriples' repo = "http://datagraph.org/jhacker/foaf.nt"